Backend developer (Kotlin / Java) – Albert Heijn – Zaandam

  • Zaandam

Albert Heijn

Jobid=611262180162995156 (0.0996)

Wat ga je doen?

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Help
shape the technology driving one of the Netherlands’ most trusted
brands. As our new Backend Engineer (Kotlin/Java, Kafka, DevOps),
you’ll build and run applications that keep our supply chain
transport efficient, compliant, and future-ready. Working at the
intersection of engineering, sustainability, and business, you’ll
have the chance to influence the daily transport of millions of
products while ensuring innovation, reliability, and impact at
scale.

Build systems that matter at real scale.
In this role, you will design and build backend services that
support business‑critical processes used daily across the
organization. Your work directly impacts system reliability,
developer productivity, and the ability of teams to deliver
features faster and more safely. You will work on production
systems at scale, where performance, resilience, and
maintainability are first‑class concerns—not
afterthoughts.


This is
how you’ll reinvent food
retail.

  • You design,
    develop, and operate backend services using modern engineering
    practices
  • You work with technologies such as
    Java/Kotlin, event‑driven architectures with
    Kafka
  • You take ownership of services
    end‑to‑end: from design and implementation to production support
    and continuous improvement, DevOps
  • You
    collaborate closely with product, platform, and other engineering
    teams to make pragmatic technical
    decisions

How we
work.

  • Engineers have
    real ownership and autonomy in technical decisions within our
    architectural guiderails
  • With the latest DevAI
    Tooling we supercharge our development workflow, automate where we
    can, giving you more time to focus on creative
    problem-solving.
  • Code quality matters: peer
    reviews, clear architecture, and readable code are part of daily
    work
  • Technical debt is acknowledged and
    addressed—not ignored
  • We value simple, robust
    solutions over unnecessary
    complexity

Why this
role is interesting for
engineers.

  • You work on
    systems with real users and real impact
  • You
    face non‑trivial engineering challenges around scalability, data
    flow, and reliability
  • You have time and space
    to improve both the codebase and the way we
    work
  • You grow technically through exposure to
    complex systems, experienced engineers, and meaningful
    ownership

Your new team
and office.

You work at the heart of the
Albert Heijn supply chain, we are responsible for the on-time
delivery of our products at 1200+ Albert Heijn stores every day
across the Netherlands and Belgium. Our mission is to provide the
best shopping experience to our customers, offering high service
levels and fresh products at an affordable price, a task you won't
take on solo but as a full-fledged member of the Supply Chain
Transport engineering team.

Together with your
full stack team you will work on inspiring projects to accelerate
our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to
leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and give
our customers accessibility to healthy food more easily available
for everyone. At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in
the supply chain tech domain. A community of diverse individuals,
working together for our logistic and transport business. Are you
ready to reinvent the supply chain of the future, enabling millions
of people to buy and enjoy their food every day? 
We invest heavily in data, digital and tech. And that includes
investing in your career! Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from
home as well as in the office. We are located right next to the
train station Zaandam.

We think it’s important to
be part of a high-belonging team; a team where you can be yourself
and feel safe, accepted and appreciated. For this job we are
preferably looking for someone who brings diversity in our team, in
the widest possible sense. Someone who is a great addition to our
team by bringing other ideas to the table. So don’t check all the
boxes? Don’t worry, we probably don’t either . Don’t hesitate to
apply if you think you are up for the challenge, we’re happy to
have a look at your resume.


The recipe for maximum
impact.

  • 3-8 years of
    experience with backend development in Java or
    Kotlin
  • Experience with key technologies: Spring
    Boot, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, and Azure
    Cloud.
  • CI/CD expertise: Confident working with
    continuous integration and deployment, including test automation
    and release engineering.
  • Embraced DevAI: You
    understand their capabilities and limitations and have applied
    these in your daily work.
  • Solid grasp of best
    practices: You understand clean code, security, test automation,
    and cloud concepts.
  • Excellent English
    communication skills.
  • Full stack mentality,
    while you are the expert in Java/Kotlin you will be involved in the
    React front-end development together with your team front-end
    experts.
  • Experience with iterative development:
    Comfortable working in cycles and adapting as you
    go.
  • Business-technical translation: Able to
    turn business needs into technical solutions and work closely with
    stakeholders.
  • Continuous improvement: You spot
    opportunities for improvement and help shape the technical
    roadmap.

What we
offer.

At Albert Heijn we aim to grow,
and this is only possible if you grow along with us. As we work
together to build our brand and your career, you can count on
(based on 40 hours per week):

  • An
    annual salary up to 71k including holiday allowance and a flexible
    bonus. Depending on your experience;  
  • 45 days
    of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25,5 regular
    vacation days and 19,5 ADV days.
    Enjoy!
  • Flexible working
    hours;
  • Access to a challenging training
    curriculum – AH Tech Academy;
  • An excellent
    pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4,5 more than you
    as an employee;
  • A travel allowance or a
    NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by
    train;
  • Attractive discounts on various
    insurance policies;
  • 10% staff discount on
    groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per
    year;
  • A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium
    membership with many benefits;
  • A company laptop
    and telephone.


We’re Albert Heijn, food retail
reinventors. 

Albert Heijn goes way
back. More than 135 years, to be exact. So for millions of people,
food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t
achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work
tomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions
and staying plugged in to customer demands. More than 125,000
colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and
Flanders? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we
build, run and love it.

Together we make eating better the easy choice.
For everyone. 

The world around us
has changed, and significantly at that. These changes have impact
on the lives of our customers, colleagues and partners. And
therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world
with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more
people to eat fresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating
brings us together, keeps us healthier and contributes positively
to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the
easy choice. For everyone.

Albert Heijn the
Netherlands is B Corp certified. This underscores our purpose,
through which we aim to contribute to a healthier, more social, and
sustainable society. B Corp certification is a designation that a
business is meeting high standards of verified performance,
accountability and transparency.

Ready to contribute to our
mission?

Do you want to play an active
role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop
on board and join us on our expedition. Would you like to learn
more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell
you everything about this vacancy! An assessment might be part of
our selection process.

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